What's Wrong With This Sig? [Archive]

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GardoneVT

01-22-2016, 07:38 PM

My range bought a set of rental guns this week.

One of them is a brand new,unfired garden snake trim Sig P226 .40. I noticed the slide had this odd finish color in the ejection port area when safety checking the weapon, and I took these close ups .The rainbow effect is constant regardless of lighting or angle.

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y528/GardoneVT/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160122_162013646_zpsbswapxva.jpg

http://rs1279.pbsrc.com/albums/y528/GardoneVT/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160122_154442418_zpsrfnx5yhu.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip

Is this merely a cosmetic QC fail on the factory's part, or do I need to make some safety-related phone calls to the range management ?

gtmtnbiker98

01-22-2016, 07:39 PM

It's normal for Nitron.

GardoneVT

01-22-2016, 09:03 PM

It's normal for Nitron.

Fair enough.

StraitR

01-22-2016, 09:48 PM

Could the rainbow coloring be marks from heat treat bleeding through light (poor) nitron coating? Not entirely familiar with Sig's manufacturing processes.

BehindBlueI's

01-22-2016, 10:01 PM

Nitron is porous like parkerizing. Wipe it down with CLP or the like, leave a fairly heavy coat on it for awhile (say 15 minutes) and then wipe down. See what it looks like after.

LOKNLOD

01-22-2016, 10:12 PM

I think it's got an early case of the congenital derpes from its rainbow-hued brethren (http://www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductDetails/p238-rainbow.aspx). Careful putting it with around others, it might be Cohentagious.

JAD

01-24-2016, 08:22 PM

Pretty clearly that gun plays for the other team.

voodoo_man

01-24-2016, 08:34 PM

olstyn

01-24-2016, 10:17 PM

dafuq did I just click on?

I imagine it's a small market, but if nobody was buying them, they'd quit making them. Even drag queens and "real housewives of wherever" have the right to self defense, no? :)

BehindBlueI's

01-24-2016, 10:52 PM

I imagine it's a small market, but if nobody was buying them, they'd quit making them. Even drag queens and "real housewives of wherever" have the right to self defense, no? :)

Needs pearl grips. The "Louisiana whore house" edition.

GardoneVT

01-24-2016, 11:26 PM

Pretty clearly that gun plays for the other team.

Colion Noir did claim as much about .40 S&W users......